Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Handle and bands around top and bottom of cup are plain except for turning near lip. On front is a medallion with a picture of a village in niello on a stippled ground. Rest has elaborate leaf scrolls in niello on a stippled ground.
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1847
- Size:
- 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.109
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK on bottom: St. George and the Dragon, 84, AK/1847
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973